“Rapidly Recognizing Relationships: Observing Speed Dating in the South” by Jessica Deyo, Price Walt, and Leah Davis is a scholarly article that emphasizes the intricacies of speed dating from analyzing a speed dating event. As stated in the article, speed dating was created in 1998 by Rabbi and Sue Deyo to persuade Jewish associates to meet and form a romantic relationship. Speed dating is a six to twelve-minute date where two people test each other’s compatibility instead of partaking in the comparatively arduous traditional courtship. In this short span of quality time, the couple mutually shared their personality with each other and passed through the development pattern of entry, personal, and exit. In the entry phase, the speed daters …show more content…
The evidence collected suggested that men tend to dominate the conversation and women tend to assume a passive role in the interaction. For example, men maintained direct eye contact, sat forward toward the woman, and rested their hands on the table. Women, on the other hand, had a pattern of sitting back in their chairs, while maintaining eye contact with their hands on their evaluation cards only breaking eye contact to write on the card. The outward self-portrayal of the speed daters also differed by sex. The women often wore heavy makeup along with highly fashionable clothes. Men, alternatively wore jeans with only light and dark …show more content…
For example, the reader is never notified of what words or speech patterns men and women use during the date. Perhaps an effective method of observing the participants would be to record the interactions and analyze the words used and vocal patterns displayed. The article could also have included more interviews to gather more data on the speed dating experience. Because of this lack of depth and intense detail, the article appears to be a mere sample of evidence to support a claim instead of a proper study. More data could have been extracted and more experiments could have been